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64GB Solid State Drives here
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ldmelsa
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With 8GB memory sticks becoming commonplace, one can imagine fitting 8 chips in that space.
Freshy-ZN
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And the cost?? I cant wait to have a Solid State hard disk like that.
hj2k_x
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Noob question; What do you do with these solid state drives? How are they different to normal ones?
redarrow
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You use them just like regular disk drives AFAIK..
The big thing about solid state is no moving parts, which results in higher reliability (no wear and tear on moving parts).
Lower power consumption (no disks to spin) = longer battery life for laptops!!
Also of course an increase in speed (you no longer have a set of heads which physically need to move over a disk).
EDIT: I've never used one btw.. so I can't so how effective these points are in reality..
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: Oh yeah.. one other thing that would be awesome about these solid state drives is the fact that no spinning disks also means no noise!! - That alone I would love.. I've already built a water cooling system for my PC simply in an attempt at bringing down the noise level.. I hate noisy PC's.. 
The big thing about solid state is no moving parts, which results in higher reliability (no wear and tear on moving parts).
Lower power consumption (no disks to spin) = longer battery life for laptops!!
Also of course an increase in speed (you no longer have a set of heads which physically need to move over a disk).
EDIT: I've never used one btw.. so I can't so how effective these points are in reality..
EDIT Again
: Oh yeah.. one other thing that would be awesome about these solid state drives is the fact that no spinning disks also means no noise!! - That alone I would love.. I've already built a water cooling system for my PC simply in an attempt at bringing down the noise level.. I hate noisy PC's..
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hj2k_x
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redarrow
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Yea.. I guess that's a good way to discribe them..I see, thanksSo they are like big USB drives, just without the USB then?
Ekhaatvensters
Executive Member
They sound great, I hope they become mainstream quickly.
Will this mean that normal harddrives would get phased out in favour of these? I mean they sound better it should just be a matter of time for prices to drop and capacity to increase.. but I guess conventional drives will be bigger and cheaper for a long time still :/
Will this mean that normal harddrives would get phased out in favour of these? I mean they sound better it should just be a matter of time for prices to drop and capacity to increase.. but I guess conventional drives will be bigger and cheaper for a long time still :/
Ekhaatvensters
Executive Member
Yea.. I guess that's a good way to discribe them..
Except that USB drives are slower than harddrives, are these definitely faster? ANyway I'll read up on them, thanks for the info.
redarrow
Expert Member
I can't actually say..
Like I said.. I've personally got no experience with them.. and methinks the initial pricing is likely to see that it remains that way for some time.. I like this idea tho I'd have thought they'd just ship motherboards with like 5GB-10GB flash disks embedded for an O/S drive.[and make it bigger as things shrink] uhm.. I wonder if SATA interface is faster than the access speed of the device's memory and whether this a faster alternative.
Maybe this will result in two levels of HDD much like memory has the various levels based on access speed etc At 64GB its like a replacement tho. Just think dropping ur laptop will now be less fatal
Maybe this will result in two levels of HDD much like memory has the various levels based on access speed etc At 64GB its like a replacement tho. Just think dropping ur laptop will now be less fatal
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